so its one of those nights where i dont really have anything going on, just spinning the dial on 40m listening to whatever comes up. caught a couple guys ragchewing out of ohio, some digital stuff i couldnt quite identify, and some weird buzzing noise around 7.180 that just kept going for like 20 minutes. propagation seems decent tonight actually, hearing some stuff from farther away than usual. anyway just curious if anyone else does this or if im the only one who just kind of... hangs out on the bands without any real purpose lol

yeah i do this all the time, its honestly my favorite part of the hobby. no pressure, no contest, just seeing whats out there. that buzzing you heard was probably some kind of power line interference or maybe a plasma tv nearby, i get something similar on 7.150 whenever my neighbor runs his hot tub pump. 40m is great for this kind of thing especially after 9 or 10pm local time when the skip settles down a bit.

dude same, did this last thursday. fell asleep with the headphones on lmao. woke up to some guy calling cq dx at like 2am and i was so out of it i almost answered him on the wrong vfo